In these revealing first 10 days of the Trump presidency, as we were tasting the bitter cup of what this train wreck of an election was going to mean for democracy in the United States, I had one brief moment of respite. It was when The New York Times, in a headline on the day after the inauguration, virtually shouted, “With False Claims Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift.” There it was, right out there in the supposedly opinion-free purity of the front page. False! My doorstop of a Webster’s Deluxe Unabridged Dictionary has several definitions of the word, including “untruthful, lying, dishonest.”

A lesson learned! Away with Iraq-era “factually inaccurate” whitewashing. The news of the day was that the president was a liar.

“CNN turns down White House offer of Kellyanne Conway to appear on Sunday shows: report”

“Pushing back at President Donald Trump’s attacks on the network, CNN has said “no thanks” to a White House offer of Kellyanne Conway to speak for the president on this week’s State of the Union show on Sunday.”

Fortunately, President Trump communicates directly to the people. You then have the “luxury” of considering what he is saying and deciding for yourself what it means. No need to go into hysterics at every new release of facts. End of problem.

Fortunately, President Trump communicates directly to the people. You then have the “luxury” of considering what he is saying and deciding for yourself what it means. No need to go into hysterics at every new release of facts. End of problem.

Would that really have prevented Trump’s presidency? I would say no. There was already major distrust of the traditional big names in news dominated by left-wing minded editors and a very divided media landscape in America on partisan and ideological lines prior to 2016. If the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc. used such headlines during the campaign it was only telling an audience composed of mostly people on the left of centre who would have hated anyone running as a Republican regardless of whether it was Trump or not and would have had little effect on anti-Trump people on the right.